Reversible hanger



July 21, 1925.

M. A.-HEIMANN\ REVERSIBLE HANGER Filed May 2a, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 21, .1925. 1,546,489

M. A. HEIMANN REVERSIBLE HANGER Filed May 26, 1922 2 Sheets-$11861. 2 I

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Patented July 21, 1925.

MOB-BIS A. HiEmANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

REVERSIBLE HANGER.

Application filed May 26, 1322. Serial No. 563,987.-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Momus A. HEIMANN,

the city of St. Louis'and State of Missouri, have invented'a certain new and useful Improvement in Reversible Hangers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and. use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawin s, forming part of this application, in-which Figure 1 is a perspective .view of my improved hanger construction used in combination with display trunk.

Figure 2 is an enlarged detail view of the hanger construction.

Figure 3 is a detail View of one of the clips used in the hanger construction.

Figure 4 is a detail view of another clip used in the hanger construction.

Figure 5 illustrates a portion of a reach of a hanger designed to receive a clip shown in Figure3.

Figure 6 is a detail view of another clip' used in the hanger construction.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in hangers, the object being to construct a hanger whereby articles of' clothing may be arranged thereon and placed in a trunk, such as the well-known wardrobe trunk, which trunk can be closed and transported, and when opened, can be used as a support for externally arranged mounts with which the hangers can co-operat'e in the display of a full length garment.

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While I have described my invention used in combination with a display trunk pro -vided with a plurality of mounts, internal and external, fordisplaying garments, it" is obvlous that my improved hangers could be made for personal use, whereby the user may fold a full length garment for purposes of packing the same in the trunk, the hanger could be reversed and the garment hung in its proper position, i. e., full length without fold in the wardrobe or closet.

In the drawings, 1 indicates a trunk, preferably of the wardrobe variety, i. e., one in which the sections of the trunk are hinged together at about their middle by means of These hinge sections are provided with the usual lugs and keeper members, as indicated, and in the upper portion of eachseetion is a mount 3 designed to be pulled outwardly for well understood purposes.

4 indicates a keeper member arranged exteriorly of the trunk in the shape of an elongated pocket, in which keeper member is designed to be arranged a' rod 5, said rod being preferably bent, as shown, and rectangular in cross-section. 6 indicates a mount having a socket member 7 secured thereto, which socket member is designed to fit on the upper end of the rod 5 so that the rods 5 and the mounts6 may be dismantled and packed in the trunk for transportation purposes. I have not shown any means in the trunk for holding these rods and mounts in position, but it is obvious that strips, loops or buckles of any common and well understood design couldbe employed for this .minals of these twisted ends being bent to form a hook 9. The opposite terminals of this, end member extend substantially parallel to the end member, as at 10, and terminate in rebent portions 11 slightly separated from each other. The purpose of these separated ends is to enable the garment to be introduced into the space between the members 8 and 10 between the ends 11, thus avoiding the wrinkling of the garment which might be incident to pulling the garment lengthwise through this openmg. 7

12 indicate side members securedby'clips 13 (see Figure 6) to the ends of the members 8'10, said members 12 converging at their opposite extremities, and thence bent outwardly to form loops 14 in' the nature of shoulder supports, the upper reach of which shoulder supports are preferably flattened, as at 14 (see Figure 5) to receive a clip (see Figure 4:). Clips 15 when applied are prevented from longitudinal movement by horizontally disposed transverse. member sethe neck of a garment to hold said neck por- I tion in place when the garment is folded to be placed in the trunk, as shown in figure 1. The ends of the loops 14 are twisted together, asat 14 and the point of junction or convergence of the Wires 1214 is strengthened by means of a clip 16 (see Figure 3). One of the terminals or ends of the twisted wires 14 is bent to form a hook 17 In operation, assuming it is desired to arrange a full length garment upon one of the hangers, the waist portion of the garment is passed between the ends 11 and the loops 14 arranged through the neck and under the shoulder portions of the garment so that the horns 15 will spread-the neck apart, as shown at the left in Figure 1. For display purposes, hook 17 may be arranged on one of the mounts 6. To pack the gar- -ment in the trunk for transportation, the

garment is folded at'the waist portion so that the hook 9 is uppermost and each hook 9 can be used in suspending the folded garment upon one of the internal mounts 3 in the trunk in its suspended position. The horns 15 tend to keep the neck opening of the garment spread so as to prevent wrinkling at this point. The sleeves of the garment, if of suflicient length, can be arranged under the ends of the wires 10 so that they will be prevented from falling.

It will be seen from the above that m improved reversible hanger enables the garment to be folded for transporation and supported by one hook from the mount in the trunk; .and for display purposes, the hook at the opposite end of the hanger'can beused on the externally arranged mount, or other support, to display the full length of the garment.

What I claim is:

1. A garment hanger comprising a garment shoulder support, a hook extending therefrom, side members diverging from the central portion of said shoulder support in an opposite direction from said hook, a

cured to and supported by the ends of said divergent side members, a pair of opposed garment engaging members secured to said side members and extending inwardly parallel with and spaced from said transverse member, the inner ends of said garment engaging members being free of each other to permit the insertion ofa garment therein, and a hook extending downwardly from said transverse member.

2. A garment hanger comprisingv a garment shoulder support, a hook extending therefrom, side members diverging from the central portion of said support in an opposite direction to said hook, a horizontallydisposed garment engaging member, said garment engaging member consisting of a rectangular frame having its inner horizontal portion terminating in spaced ends for receiving a garment within said frame, clips for securing the ends of said divergent members to the vertical portions of said frame, and a hook extending from the outer horizontally disposed portion of said frame in a direction opposite to the first mentioned hook.

3. A garment hanger comprising a garment shoulder support, a hook extending therefrom, divergent side members extending from the central portion of said support in a direction opposite to said hook, a garment engaging member secured to the ends of said divergent members and having inwardly presented rebent portions, the ends of which are separated from each other in order to engage the garment, and a hook extending from sald garment engaging member in a direction opposite to the first mentioned hook. 1

4. A garment hanger comprising a wire frame bent to form shoulder supporting loops and having their outer ends twisted together, one of said ends being extended and bent to form a hook, wire side members diverging from the central portion of said supporting members, a wire end reach member secured at its sides to the ends of said divergent members and having its outer ends twisted together, one of the terminals of said ends being extended and bent to form a hook oppositely disposed relative to the first-mentioned hook, the opposite terminals of said end members extending substantially parallel thereto and terminating in rebent portions separated from each other for receiving and engaging the garment in the space between said end members and its spaced parallel extensions.

' In testimony whereof I hereuntmaflix my signature this 22nd day of May, 1922.

MORRIS A. HEIMANN. 

